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Almost 900 people are RSVPed for a July 4th march on Washington, D.C. where protesters plan to carry loaded rifles. In D.C., openly carrying guns is against the law. But the organizer of the event, libertarian radio host Adam Kokesh, says the march is an act of “civil disobedience” that attempts to prove gun advocates’ point in the “SUBTLEST way possible.”
The event’s Facebook invitation describes the march as a nonviolent demonstration, “unless the government chooses to make it violent”:
Gun Protesters Plan March On Washington With Loaded Rifles To ‘Put The Government On Notice’
Florida restores early voting days, moves back primary
Still smarting from jokes about Florida's inability to run statewide elections, Florida lawmakers approved a package of revisions on Friday to give voters more time and locations to cast their ballots.
"We all took a lot of flak for elections last year," said Senator Jack Latvala, a Republican who chairs the Senate Ethics and Elections Committee. "We were the butt of jokes on late night TV."
NRA lobbyist, arms dealer played key role in growth of civilian market for military-style guns
Rene Carlos Vos, an arms dealer in Alexandria, began hanging around the Washington headquarters of the National Rifle Association in the mid-1980s. The NRA’s staff was intrigued to see the garrulous, backslapping Vos in the group’s seventh-floor suite, home to its lobbying operation and the chief congressional lobbyist, Wayne LaPierre.
Vos and LaPierre struck those who saw them huddle together as an odd couple. Vos took to cowboy boots and neatly pressed western wear.
Obama might accept immigration bill without help for same-sex couples
President Barack Obama said Friday he might accept a rewrite of the nation’s immigration laws even if it did not allow tens of thousands of same-sex couples to apply for legal status for their foreign-born partners.
Obama, on a visit to Central America in part to tout his support of an immigration overhaul, backs the inclusion for same-sex couples, but would not say if he would veto a bill without it. “I’m not going to get everything I want in this bill,” he said. “Republicans aren’t going to get everything they want in this bill.”
Colorado Legislature Passes Major Voting Rights Expansion Bill
Both houses of the Colorado legislature passed a major overhaul of state election law that would implement same-day registration and voting, automatically send mail-in ballots to every voter, and create a real-time statewide voter database to prevent fraud. Proponents view the bill, written by a bipartisan group of county clerks, as a national model for other states.
The same-day registration provision prompted most of the resistance from Republicans, who largely voted against the bill in both houses. The bill, however, did garner Republican support from county clerks, and former Republican Secretary of State Donetta Davidson. The Denver Post explained:
Obama Picks Major Fundraiser To Be Next Commerce Secretary
Penny Pritzker, one of the nation's richest people and a "longtime political supporter and heavyweight fundraiser," , is President Obama's choice to be his next secretary of commerce.
The president announced the news this hour at the White House. He also said that one of his economic advisers, Michael Froman, is his choice to be the next U.S. trade representative.
"Pritzker, who raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Obama's two presidential campaigns, is on the board of Hyatt Hotels Corp. Her personal fortune is estimated at $1.85 billion, and she is listed among the 300 wealthiest Americans by Forbes magazine. ...
Gun-control advocates plan state initiative on background checks
"We are here today to ask our elected officials why they have failed us," said the Rev. Sandy Brown of Seattle's First United Method Church, who was flanked by faith leaders, elected officials and activists the morning after the end of Washington's 2013 regular legislative session.
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